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This type contains a summary of cumulative costs and charges for all line items of an order, including item price, price adjustments, sales taxes, delivery costs, and order discounts.

Type that uses PricingSummary

Order

Calls that use PricingSummary

Fields

Field
Type
Description
adjustment
This container shows the total amount of any adjustments that were applied to the cost of the item(s) in the order. This amount does not include shipping, discounts, fixed fees, or taxes.

This container is only returned if price adjustments were made to the order after the initial transaction/commitment to buy occurred.
deliveryCost
This container shows the total cost of delivering the order to the buyer, before any shipping/delivery discount is applied.
deliveryDiscount
This container shows the total amount of delivery discounts (including shipping discounts) that apply to the order. This should be a negative real number.

This container is only returned if delivery discounts are being applied to the order.
fee
This container shows the total amount of any special fees applied to the order, such as a tire recycling fee or an electronic waste fee.

This container is returned if special fees are being applied to the order and if the fieldGroups is set to TAX_BREAKDOWN.
priceDiscount
This container shows the total amount of all item price discounts (including promotions) that apply to the order and reduce its cost to the buyer. This should be a negative real number.

This container is only returned if special discounts are being applied to the order.
priceSubtotal
This container shows the cumulative costs of of all units of all line items in the order, before any discount is applied.
tax
This container shows the total amount of tax for the order. To calculate the tax percentage rate, divide this value by the value of the total field.

This container is only returned if any type of tax (sales tax, tax on shipping, tax on handling, import tax, etc.) is applied to the order.
total
The total cost of the order after adding all line item costs, delivery costs, sales tax, and special fees, and then subtracting all special discounts and price adjustments.

Note: For orders that are subject to 'eBay Collect and Remit' tax, the 'Collect and Remit' tax amount for the order will be included in this total value only when the fieldGroups query parameter is set to TAX_BREAKDOWN. If the fieldGroups query parameter is not set to TAX_BREAKDOWN, 'Collect and Remit' will not be added into this total value.

To determine if 'Collect and Remit' taxes were added into this total value, the user can check for the corresponding lineItems.ebayCollectAndRemitTaxes and the lineItems.taxes containers in the response. If both of these containers appear for one or more line items in the response with the following taxType values, the 'Collect and Remit' tax amount that the buyer paid is included in this amount:
  • STATE_SALES_TAX: US state-mandated sales tax
  • PROVINCE_SALES_TAX: Provincial Sales Tax in Canada
  • GST: 'Good and Services' tax in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
  • VAT: VAT collected for UK and EU countries

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